drawing-room car

Example Sentences

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It was quite gaily that she took her seat beside him in the drawing-room car of the train and impatiently awaited the first sight of the salt meadows before Jersey City is reached.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

The drawing-room car was badly lighted and not heated.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

On our way from Springfield to Boston, a stout, black-whiskered man sat immediately in front of me, in the drawing-room car, whose maneuvers were a source of constant amusement.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

With her thoroughly sound mind and body and healthy appetites, every detail and every foot of the journey was a pleasure to her; even the corner of a drawing-room car on a night train.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan

As the drawing-room car was just clearing the station, Miss Montague held a piece of paper out of the window, which Charles caught eagerly and placed in his pocket-book.

From The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician by Fuhrer, Charlotte